Customer Service Job Trends in England

Customer Service
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Customer Service skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 34 26
Rank change year-on-year -19 -8 +25
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 2,644 2,500 5,754
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.28% 6.37% 6.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 6.82% 8.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,901 1,708 4,300
10th Percentile £25,077 £24,196 £22,614
25th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £25,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £32,500 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +1.56% -8.57%
75th Percentile £41,250 £46,781 £47,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £63,908 £63,750
UK median annual salary £31,250 £32,500 £32,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.56% -11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Customer Service falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,619 36,635 71,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.07% 93.38% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 39,039 20,695 53,834
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Customer Service relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Customer Service job vacancy trend in England

Customer Service
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Customer Service.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Customer Service

Customer Service
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Customer Service in England

Customer Service
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Service within the England region over the 6 months to 11 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East 0 669 £30,000 -6.25% 270
North of England -9 589 £30,000 - 233
Midlands -27 406 £29,000 +1.75% 143
London -22 405 £40,000 -5.88% 207
North West +16 338 £32,500 +1.56% 121
South West -19 321 £32,500 +3.17% 97
East of England -21 225 £31,500 -3.08% 102
East Midlands -8 220 £28,500 +3.64% 78
West Midlands -19 186 £30,750 +4.24% 65
Yorkshire -35 182 £30,000 +3.45% 79
North East -22 69 £28,750 -2.54% 38
Customer Service
UK

Customer Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 182 (6.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 142 (5.37%) SharePoint
3 48 (1.82%) Jupyter
4 6 (0.23%) CMS
5 2 (0.076%) Confluence
5 2 (0.076%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.076%) Gentran
5 2 (0.076%) IIS
6 1 (0.038%) WordPress
Applications
1 355 (13.43%) Microsoft Office
2 112 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (2.08%) Chatbot
4 40 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.34%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.076%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.076%) Avid Media Composer
8 2 (0.076%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.076%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 44 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.45%) NEC Housing
3 8 (0.30%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
7 4 (0.15%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.11%) Magento
8 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.11%) Shopify
9 2 (0.076%) C-CURE
9 2 (0.076%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.076%) Misys Midas
9 2 (0.076%) Odoo
9 2 (0.076%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.038%) Aareon QL
10 1 (0.038%) Maximo
10 1 (0.038%) Orchard Housing
10 1 (0.038%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.038%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 782 (29.58%) Microsoft 365
2 367 (13.88%) Azure
3 176 (6.66%) Entra ID
4 155 (5.86%) AWS
5 104 (3.93%) Power Platform
5 104 (3.93%) SaaS
6 77 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
7 53 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
8 52 (1.97%) OneDrive
9 38 (1.44%) PowerApps
10 37 (1.40%) Power Automate
11 33 (1.25%) Google Workspace
12 32 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
13 25 (0.95%) GCP
14 14 (0.53%) GitHub
14 14 (0.53%) Mimecast
15 12 (0.45%) Boomi
16 11 (0.42%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (0.38%) IaaS
17 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 214 (8.09%) DNS
2 201 (7.60%) DHCP
3 168 (6.35%) Firewall
4 133 (5.03%) VPN
5 120 (4.54%) WAN
6 114 (4.31%) LAN
6 114 (4.31%) Wi-Fi
7 99 (3.74%) TCP/IP
8 94 (3.56%) Broadband
9 59 (2.23%) VoIP
9 59 (2.23%) Wireless
10 50 (1.89%) Internet
11 42 (1.59%) VLAN
12 27 (1.02%) Structured Cabling
13 16 (0.61%) WLAN
14 14 (0.53%) Network Security
14 14 (0.53%) SAN
14 14 (0.53%) WebEx
15 11 (0.42%) IP Telephony
15 11 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (2.53%) Power BI
2 44 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
3 41 (1.55%) SQL Server
4 16 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (0.42%) Power Query
6 9 (0.34%) MySQL
7 6 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.15%) QGIS
10 3 (0.11%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.11%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.11%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.11%) Tableau
11 2 (0.076%) Big Data
11 2 (0.076%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.038%) Apache Hive
12 1 (0.038%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.038%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.038%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 51 (1.93%) JIRA
2 48 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
3 15 (0.57%) Selenium
4 12 (0.45%) Cypress.io
5 11 (0.42%) TeamCity
6 6 (0.23%) Moq
7 4 (0.15%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.076%) TestRail
8 2 (0.076%) Toad
8 2 (0.076%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.038%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.038%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,255 (47.47%) Social Skills
2 350 (13.24%) Finance
3 256 (9.68%) Organisational Skills
4 234 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
5 183 (6.92%) Retail
6 181 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 161 (6.09%) Marketing
8 148 (5.60%) Legal
9 119 (4.50%) Manufacturing
10 97 (3.67%) Law
11 82 (3.10%) Public Sector
12 77 (2.91%) Telecoms
13 62 (2.34%) French Language
14 61 (2.31%) Games
15 46 (1.74%) Advertising
16 38 (1.44%) Banking
17 31 (1.17%) Back Office
18 30 (1.13%) German Language
19 29 (1.10%) Billing
20 26 (0.98%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 535 (20.23%) IT Support
2 380 (14.37%) Support Engineer
3 323 (12.22%) Analyst
4 298 (11.27%) IT Engineer
5 247 (9.34%) IT Support Engineer
6 196 (7.41%) Support Technician
7 163 (6.16%) Senior
8 161 (6.09%) IT Technician
9 152 (5.75%) 2nd Line Support
10 137 (5.18%) Support Analyst
11 134 (5.07%) 1st Line Support
12 121 (4.58%) Service Analyst
12 121 (4.58%) Service Desk Analyst
13 119 (4.50%) IT Support Technician
14 112 (4.24%) Technical Support
15 111 (4.20%) IT Analyst
16 88 (3.33%) Consultant
17 83 (3.14%) Account Manager
18 76 (2.87%) Systems Engineer
19 73 (2.76%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (1.89%) Hugging Face
2 48 (1.82%) Matplotlib
2 48 (1.82%) NumPy
2 48 (1.82%) Pandas
2 48 (1.82%) scikit-learn
2 48 (1.82%) Streamlit
3 24 (0.91%) XML
4 20 (0.76%) EDI
5 18 (0.68%) JSON
5 18 (0.68%) REST
6 15 (0.57%) .NET
6 15 (0.57%) Middleware
6 15 (0.57%) SOAP
7 14 (0.53%) React
8 13 (0.49%) Playwright
9 11 (0.42%) HTML
10 7 (0.26%) Sass
11 6 (0.23%) Entity Framework
11 6 (0.23%) Node.js
11 6 (0.23%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 330 (12.48%) Driving Licence
2 189 (7.15%) Onboarding
3 156 (5.90%) Self-Motivation
4 61 (2.31%) Virtual Team
5 59 (2.23%) Podcast
6 57 (2.16%) EPoS
7 56 (2.12%) Management Information System
7 56 (2.12%) Web Conferencing
8 49 (1.85%) Algorithms
8 49 (1.85%) Blog
9 45 (1.70%) Data Centre
10 43 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
11 41 (1.55%) Video Conferencing
12 36 (1.36%) Product Ownership
13 35 (1.32%) Social Media
14 33 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
15 31 (1.17%) CCTV
16 27 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
17 26 (0.98%) CMDB
18 17 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 758 (28.67%) Windows
2 305 (11.54%) Windows Server
3 181 (6.85%) Windows 10
4 84 (3.18%) Linux
5 65 (2.46%) Android
6 55 (2.08%) Apple iOS
7 50 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
8 48 (1.82%) Mac OS
9 17 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.42%) Mac OS X
11 9 (0.34%) Debian
12 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.15%) Unix
14 3 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (0.11%) Solaris
15 2 (0.076%) VMS
16 1 (0.038%) tvOS
16 1 (0.038%) Windows 7
16 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 892 (33.74%) Problem-Solving
2 398 (15.05%) ITIL
3 283 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 253 (9.57%) CRM
5 235 (8.89%) Customer Experience
6 190 (7.19%) Service Delivery
7 185 (7.00%) ITSM
8 165 (6.24%) AI
9 142 (5.37%) Business Development
10 137 (5.18%) B2B
11 135 (5.11%) Time Management
12 119 (4.50%) Cybersecurity
13 103 (3.90%) Mentoring
14 99 (3.74%) Incident Management
15 96 (3.63%) Agile
16 94 (3.56%) Coaching
17 90 (3.40%) ERP
17 90 (3.40%) Logistics
18 88 (3.33%) Collaborative Working
19 87 (3.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 111 (4.20%) SQL
2 102 (3.86%) Python
3 59 (2.23%) PowerShell
4 49 (1.85%) JavaScript
5 20 (0.76%) C#
6 16 (0.61%) Java
7 15 (0.57%) TypeScript
8 10 (0.38%) Ladder Logic
9 9 (0.34%) C++
10 7 (0.26%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.23%) Bash
11 6 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.23%) XAML
12 4 (0.15%) C
12 4 (0.15%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.11%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.11%) PHP
14 2 (0.076%) Perl
14 2 (0.076%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.076%) Scala
Qualifications
1 354 (13.39%) Degree
2 164 (6.20%) Microsoft Certification
3 120 (4.54%) Security Cleared
4 116 (4.39%) DBS Check
5 103 (3.90%) AWS Certification
6 95 (3.59%) SC Cleared
7 68 (2.57%) MCSE
8 66 (2.50%) A+ Certification
9 65 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 51 (1.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 50 (1.89%) Network+ Certification
12 38 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
13 35 (1.32%) CCNA
14 19 (0.72%) HNC
15 15 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 15 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 14 (0.53%) CTC Cleared
16 14 (0.53%) PMI Certification
17 12 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (5.64%) SLA
2 89 (3.37%) QA
3 71 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 45 (1.70%) PCI DSS
5 37 (1.40%) GDPR
6 32 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.53%) Data Quality
7 14 (0.53%) PMO
8 12 (0.45%) TickIT
9 10 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.19%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.15%) Good Clinical Practice
12 4 (0.15%) GxP
12 4 (0.15%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.11%) GRC
13 3 (0.11%) NIST
14 2 (0.076%) ISO 14001
14 2 (0.076%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 485 (18.34%) Active Directory
2 123 (4.65%) Hyper-V
3 76 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (1.59%) Terminal Server
5 10 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.34%) Firmware
7 7 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.19%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.19%) Docker
8 5 (0.19%) Terminal Services
9 4 (0.15%) vSphere
10 3 (0.11%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.076%) IAG
11 2 (0.076%) Lustre
11 2 (0.076%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.038%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 147 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 72 (2.72%) SCCM
3 18 (0.68%) Terraform
4 15 (0.57%) Kubernetes
5 14 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
6 13 (0.49%) Ansible
6 13 (0.49%) WSUS
7 11 (0.42%) Autotask
7 11 (0.42%) Grafana
8 7 (0.26%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.19%) SmoothWall
10 4 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.076%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.076%) Podman
Vendors
1 1,022 (38.65%) Microsoft
2 141 (5.33%) VMware
3 113 (4.27%) ServiceNow
4 60 (2.27%) Apple
5 59 (2.23%) Veeam
6 58 (2.19%) Cisco
7 56 (2.12%) Salesforce
8 50 (1.89%) SolarWinds
9 47 (1.78%) Google
10 42 (1.59%) Brocade
10 42 (1.59%) Nimble Storage
10 42 (1.59%) Splunk
10 42 (1.59%) Tanium
11 36 (1.36%) SAP
12 32 (1.21%) BT
12 32 (1.21%) Meraki
13 31 (1.17%) Citrix
14 25 (0.95%) Sophos
15 22 (0.83%) HubSpot
16 19 (0.72%) Sage